From gabor at szabgab.com Mon Oct 14 05:58:42 2013
From: gabor at szabgab.com (Gabor Szabo)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 05:58:42 -0700
Subject: [Kochi-pm] [Perlweekly] #116 - Perl TV launched
Message-ID: <20131014125842.512EB76E350@s6.hostlocal.com>
Perl Weekly
http://perlweekly.com/
You can read the newsletter on the web, if you prefer.
http://perlweekly.com/archive/116.html
Hi,
I am sorry for sending this edition so late, I was busy trying to launch
the new Perl TV ("http://perltv.org/") site. There are plenty of
interviews, talks and presentation posted on YouTube and other video sites,
but very few people know about those. I think it will be nice to share
these videos. So the Perl TV site will post a new video every day. You can
follow it via its Atom feed.
In other news, it turns out the Portuguese Perl Workshop was rescheduled to
October 24-25. Please make sure you arrive on the right days :).
Enjoy the articles!
Announcements
Movable Type Hackathon 2013
http://ptix.co/19zrZK1
After 6 long years of waiting, the Movable Type ("http://bit.ly/19zrZdd")
Hackathon is finally returning to New York City on October 17th, 2013!
There are still a few more places left.
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Austrian Perl Workshop 2013 - Call for everything
http://bit.ly/18dhPQY
Which is less than 3 weeks away!
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Articles
Google GeoChart, JSON and Perl
http://bit.ly/18dhQ7f
Although the example published by Johnny Morano uses CGI, it can help you
get started with the creation of a chart showing the earth and displaying
the countries with different colors.
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Oozing Caribou
http://bit.ly/18dhQ7j
Oozie is a workflow scheduler for Hadoop that defines its workflows using a
horrific XML dialect. Yanick Champoux took his Template::Caribou for a
ride to make the XML behave.
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Testing
Underappreciated Perl Code: TAP's YAMLish Syntax
http://bit.ly/19zrZtC
Parsing the error messages from a test script might be difficult as those
include free text and were designed to be read by humans, not by
computers. OTOH if you can get a well formatted version of this output
then it will be possible and even easy to write a parser for them. This
is what came out of the Wumpus Cave of Timm Murray.
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Software Test Podcast
http://bit.ly/19zs2p6
I did not have time to listen to the actual podcast yet, but what David
Cantrell writes about the distinction between Quality Control and Quality
Assurance is interesting.
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CPAN Testers Summary - Oct 2013 - What's THIS For...!
http://bit.ly/19zs00y
There was a big server upgrade that went well with only a few hiccups. Of
course the server is not free. You can read how it is being financed.
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Code
Perl 5 Internals - Part Four
http://bit.ly/19zs2pm
In this part of the series, Rob Hoelz covers the optree, which is quite
similar to what others might call an abstract syntax tree (AST). comments
("http://bit.ly/18dhQ7s")
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Perl::Critic for the Camel
http://bit.ly/19zs00J
Tom Christiansen started discussing the idea to create a set of
Perl::Critic rules that will cover the recommendations of the Camel book
(aka. Programming Perl). In case you don't know, Perl::Critic is the
implementation of the recommendation from the book 'Perl Best Practices'
written by Damian Conway. It is extendable and can server as a great tool
to make sure your code follows recommended practices.
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Debian & Ubuntu
Released Perl ptkdb debugger to experimental
http://bit.ly/18dhQnN
Thanks to Dominique Dumont, Debian and thus Ubuntu are going to get a new
version of the Devel::ptkdb debugger.
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Lintian 2.5.19
http://bit.ly/18dhSw9
Niels Thykier has recently released a new, and much faster version of
autodie and now Lintian. autodie ("http://bit.ly/18dhQnU") will turns
silent errors into an exception, and Lintian ("http://bit.ly/18dhQnY") is
a Lint-like tool for Debian packages. It tries to find bugs and policy
violations.
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CPAN
Real $VERSIONs on CPAN
http://bit.ly/19zs2FR
Do you know how should a version number on CPAN look like? Not? Don't
worry. Apparently there are a few other people who have very interesting
ideas about how version numbers should look like.
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Five percent of indexed CPAN packages come from just two distributions
http://bit.ly/18dhSMp
Apparently David Golden was on a roll checking CPAN. What is totally
unclear to me is why do those two distribution need so many packages
(modules)?
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Perl 6
NQP gets MoarVM support, cursor reduction, and other news
http://bit.ly/19zs2W8
Jonathan Worthington offers another peek into the labs of Perl 6.
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SPAM
Setting up DKIM email signatures with Perl
http://bit.ly/19zs0h8
DKIM is one of the tools that you, as a sysadmin, mail server owner can
help your users to deliver their e-mail avoiding the spam-filters and to
ensure that others cannot abuse your domain by faking messages being sent
from it. DKIM signs the messages on the server so the recipient will be
able to verify it really came from a server authorized for the domain.
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Other
Why I'll never leave Romania as a software developer
http://bit.ly/18dhQEu
Tudor Constantin reveals details about the most sacred. His salary. But not
only that. He runs a comparison of income and cost of living in a couple
of cities.
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Video
Larry Wall (TimToady): Why Perl Is Like a Human Language
http://bit.ly/19MskwL
Did your study of linguistics play a role in Perl's development? - How are
human languages and programming languages similar?
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Weekly collections
MetaCPAN weekly report - Devel::hdb
http://bit.ly/18dhSMF
Devel::hdb tops the list the week I posted the article about it
("http://bit.ly/1a49BaS"). Nice.
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Perl 6 changes - 2013W41
http://bit.ly/18dhT2V
The weekly update by Konrad Borowski
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StackOverflow Perl report
http://bit.ly/18dhT2X
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Perl Maven Tutorials
Getting started with Perl Dancer on Digital Ocean
http://bit.ly/19zs0xA
In this article you get from zero to a deployed skeleton of a Dancer based
web application.
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Events
I usually list the next 3-4 events here. The list of all the events can be
found on the web site (http://perlweekly.com/events.html). If your Perl
event is not listed there, please let me know.
Portuguese Perl Workshop
http://bit.ly/148IjRI
October 24-25, 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
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Perl-Community Workshop 2013 in Frankfurt
http://bit.ly/1f9HK1l
October 26-27, 2013, Frankfurt, Germany
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Austrian Perl Workshop
http://bit.ly/18hunIE
November 2-3, 2013, Salzburg, Austria
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YAPC::Brazil 2013
http://bit.ly/155GQIh
November 15-16, 2013, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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